Box 78
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Contains 4 Results:
Visiting Committee - Chemistry, 1947-1950
unspecified — Box: 78, Folder: 1498-1499
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Barker served as trustee for MIT, Northwestern, Robert College, and the Newberry Library during his later years. Perhaps his most important trusteeship was on the MIT Corporation. Education, and especially humanities and linguistics were of personal importance to him and he was quite active on committees steering these topics at MIT. In 1964 while serving on the Visiting Committee on Modern Languages and Linguistics Barker became involved in a dispute with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky had been a...
Dates:
1947-1950
Visiting Committee - Civil and Sanitary Engineering, 1941-1945
unspecified — Box: 78, Folder: 1500-1502
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Barker served as trustee for MIT, Northwestern, Robert College, and the Newberry Library during his later years. Perhaps his most important trusteeship was on the MIT Corporation. Education, and especially humanities and linguistics were of personal importance to him and he was quite active on committees steering these topics at MIT. In 1964 while serving on the Visiting Committee on Modern Languages and Linguistics Barker became involved in a dispute with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky had been a...
Dates:
1941-1945
Visiting Committee - Economics and Social Sciences, 1955-1960
unspecified — Box: 78, Folder: 1503
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Barker served as trustee for MIT, Northwestern, Robert College, and the Newberry Library during his later years. Perhaps his most important trusteeship was on the MIT Corporation. Education, and especially humanities and linguistics were of personal importance to him and he was quite active on committees steering these topics at MIT. In 1964 while serving on the Visiting Committee on Modern Languages and Linguistics Barker became involved in a dispute with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky had been a...
Dates:
1955-1960
Visiting Committee - Humanities, 1953-1955
unspecified — Box: 78, Folder: 1504
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Barker served as trustee for MIT, Northwestern, Robert College, and the Newberry Library during his later years. Perhaps his most important trusteeship was on the MIT Corporation. Education, and especially humanities and linguistics were of personal importance to him and he was quite active on committees steering these topics at MIT. In 1964 while serving on the Visiting Committee on Modern Languages and Linguistics Barker became involved in a dispute with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky had been a...
Dates:
1953-1955